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Thoriel collection, Paris. With André Weil Galleries, Paris [1]. Gladys Lloyd Cassell Robinson (1895-1971), Los Angeles, by 1958 (from Weil?) [2]; her sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, October 26, 1960, no. 58; sold to Charlotte Dorrance Wright (1911-1977) and William Coxe Wright (d. 1970), St. Davids, PA, until his d. 1970; Charlotte Dorrance Wright; bequest to PMA, 1978.
1. Preceding information from Parke-Bernet catalogue, 1960, and Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin, 1824-1898, Paris, 1973, no. 3552.
2. Lent by Robinson to the Oklahoma Art Center's "Inaugural Exhibition", 1958. Gladys Robinson was the former wife of the actor and collector Edward G. Robinson, whom she divorced in 1956. The catalog of the 1959 exhibition of her collection at the Hammer Galleries, New York, notes that the collection had been assembled in the past three years.